Narmada Akka

Narmada was one of the "senior-most" female cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a bannedMaoist insurgentcommunist party in India. She was a Central Committee member of the party, and reportedly used to frame "all policies for the female cadre of Maoists."

Family

She married Sudhakar alias "Kiran". Sudhakar is seen as a Maoist ideologue, and is a member of CPI (Maoist)'s "publication division". He is also a member of the Politburo of the party.

Guerrilla life

Narmada was able to fluently communicate in seven languages, including English. She dropped-out the college and joined the CPI (Maoist) at an early age of 18, and she had spent over 30 years in the jungles as a veteran to the Maoist movement in India. Her father was also a supporter of the communist ideology, and his words so touched her that she made her mind to join the radical leftists.

During an interview with Rahul Pandita and Vanessa (a French journalist), at an unknown time in the jungles of Dandakaranya, Narmada said: